debate
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This is one of the issues at the centre of the debate mentioned in the previous answer.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
I dig the intention of the environment, the debate, the ongoing pushing of the self and weaving that into your personal life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Leo has made the hot-button issue a cornerstone of his papacy in dedicating to it his first encyclical -- a document which lays the basis for Church teaching and longer-term debate.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
But we should be able to debate the best way to defend ourselves from it without being accused of campaigning for the enemy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
The actual debate in the House in the fall and winter of 1795 proceeded under Madison’s more cautious leadership and narrower interpretation of the Constitution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing debate
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Speech and Debate
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